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Hopf Skyrmion in QCD with adjoint quarks

Hopf Skyrmion in QCD with adjoint quarks

We consider a modification of QCD in which conventional fundamental quarks are replaced by Weyl fermions in the adjoint representation of the color $\mathrm{SU}(N)$. In the case of two flavors the low-energy chiral Lagrangian is that of the Skyrme-Faddeev model. The latter supports topologically stable solitons with mass scaling as …